"Mexican paper curbs reporting after attack"

Free speech is under attack around the globe, by Muslims in the Arab world and by drug lords in the New World.

“I say again to organized crime: You will not make the Mexican people yield,” [Mexican President Vicente] Fox told reporters in the Pacific state of Sinaloa.

Except for newspaper employees, apparently.

Let's hope the U.S. press does not go weak-kneed in the face of such criminal intimidation. Now, more than ever, we need free speech, and the American media outlets should be leading the charge.